Commerce Resources on Friday announced that, given industry interest in its wholly-owned Ashram project and its development to date, the company intends to restart the pilot plant programme at Hazen Research, in Colorado, and produce several kilograms of representative rare earth samples for delivery. Additionally, the company intends to complete a bench-scale programme to upgrade its metallurgical-grade fluorspar concentrate to acid-grade and provide a sample of this higher-value product to Glencore in line with its request.